Class Project to Design Race Meet
 

So I am currently taking a racing secretary class at the University of Arizona. One of my projects, actually one of the biggest projects, is to design a 33 day race meet from the bottom up. We are basically given simulcasting numbers for money, average handle, and approximate horse population and have to go from there, plus it is a mixed meet, so we have to figure in QH's and try to keep everyone happy.

I have to say, this has been fun, but very, very time consuming, and this is just for a mythical race meet over 6 weeks or so. I do have alot more respect for racing secretaries everywhere for the work they put into releasing a condition book after the project, too.

Just wanted to vent a little frustration on the day before the project is due...

Do they give you a list of prospective trainers and stalls they want? What type of horses they will be bringing? If so I would like to know what info you were given... sounds cool.

OOPs. Ok I read what they gave you.
Do they give you the level of the type of horses
that are coming in? I would like to see that info.

Oops

He gives us some very vague numbers of horses in the stalls, so we have to calculate the number of races per class level according to stalls, and design our own claiming/allowance levels.

The instructor is a former Racing Secretary at some big tracks, so he is a good resource, and allows those with limited racing experience to get the basics and those with some decent knowledge of the sport to expand and make it as fun as we like.

I have definately learned that there is alot of stuff that you would never think about that goes into making a condition book.

Such as?

Sounds like a cool project

Bribe accepting 101?

That must be a Sr level class that perhaps you teach?

or at least took:cool:

That was wrong of me...

Here I am ..my parents in Green Valley begging me to go to UA and I wouldn't do it

idiot

I would like to go back sometimes...

no you wouldn't, it is worse then a real job now

Hey..tornado chaser...becareful what you wish for

True, but I have spent my whole weekend (besides the 18 I played today at MP) in a damn book, with 2 minute breaks at Keeneland post time....

Did you like the book?
It helps if you like the subject.
Sometimes...

He will have to have the 2 or 3 trainers
with the largest number of horses help him.
So that should be a part of the project.
He should get automatic input from them.
Would make the project a little easier.

Only when it comes to stalls, but either way it is more about accepting them without notice...

lol

oh I remember the matrix! remember the ladder rule!

Yeah, I should have picked you brain on it a little more. I think Doug gets a little pleasure in watching everyone struggle on it. Of course, I was up until around 3 the night before it was due still working on it like alot of students.

Still a great project, although I didn't get my ladders to look quite right...

Yeah I enjoyed that project. The a lot of students were pissed at me because I did it in one day before it was due (Granted it took like 15 hours, but I was too busy partying to not be a procrastinator). Doug still has mine I assume.

I think I named my track "Falling Downs".

Like I have said before, your reputation precedes you down here...